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Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs?

David Armstrong 05-09-2025
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-americans-pay-more-for-prescription-drugs?ref=ActivityPub

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Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs?

Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the prices in other wealthy nations.

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The Price of Remission

David Armstrong 05-08-2025
https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma?ref=ActivityPub

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The Price of Remission

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

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Basically, functionalism is the idea that a mental state is a functional state, one defined by a functional role... #philosophy #philosophyofmind #mind #Qualia #intentionality #functionalism #psychology #identitytheory #johnsearle #davidarmstrong
https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/functionalism/

Functionalism…

Philosophy of mind – Functionalism With the identity theory, which says that mental states are identical to brain states, it is evident that the theorist of such has been faced with many obje…

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This is the article #DavidDoel is talking about

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

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#UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, EXposing the Insurer's Inner Workings

by #DavidArmstrong, ProPublica
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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

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Cory Doctorow Dec 16, 2023

As with other American pathologies (like, say, internet access), US health care is more expensive and less effective than rivals (however, it is more *lucrative* than those systems).

And yet...the US health insurance system keeps finding new depths of sleaze to plumb. From #PatrickMRucker, #DorisBurke and #DavidArmstrong for #CapitolForum and @ProPublica: a deeply reported story of the worst doctors in America and their indispensable role for insurers:

https://www.propublica.org/article/malpractice-settlements-doctors-working-for-insurance-companies

Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Now Work for Insurers

Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen were hired by major insurance companies after being disciplined by state medical boards or making multiple or outsized malpractice payments.

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